Myanmar: New Government ‘Powerless’ to Overhaul Rampant Land Grabbing in Northern Myanmar

Dec 19, 2016 | Jack Board, Channel News Asia
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In rural northern Myanmar, land is everything. Yet in Kachin, there is little balance between the meagre and the mighty. Over decades of civil conflict and military rule, the rights of farmers have withered away. Land grabbing was, and remains, rife and the state government’s Ministry of Agriculture has admitted it is nearly powerless to solve many of the resulting disputes.